London: William Heinemann, 1930. Octavo (23 x 15.5 cm.), viii, 72 pages. Top edge gilt. FIRST EDITION, number 64 of 75 numbered copies, signed by both authors. Marcel Boulestin was a French chef, restaurateur and author of cookbooks that popularized French cuisine in the English-speaking world. His London restaurant, the Restaurant Français, opened in 1927, and was known at the time as the most expensive in the city. In publisher’s.....
[New York]: Castoria, Centaur Liniment, Dr. Wei De Meyer, [1883]. Duedecimo (15.25 x 10 cm.), 32 pages. Advertisements. Various small illustrations throughout. Product cookbook promoting Centaur's Castoria and Dr. Wei de Meyer's Catarrh Cure, with recipes "adapted from the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York". With testimonials, including one from P.T. Barnum. Some light spotting within. In red- and black-illustrated wrappers depicting "The Diver" with a small cord for hanging. Tiny.....
New Haven: Healy & Bigelow Publishers, 1890. 17 x11.5 cm, 64 pages. First edition. Illustrated throughout. A promotional cookbook for Healy & Bigelow's Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company that features over one hundred seventy simple recipes for beverages, biscuits, candy, cakes, fish, meat, pastry, poultry, puddings, soup, stews, and vegetables interspersed with information about Kickapoo Indian oil, salve, and other products. Also included are narratives on Indian culture, wildly racist but.....
[New York]: Allied Maintenance Corp.; [the Club], 1974. Square spiral bound book (20.5 x 20.5 cm.), 72 pages. Four leaves of thick, red card-stock, with silkcreened illustrations including the covers, in pink and white; three similarly printed leaves are section dividers. Additional illustrations in the text by Genevieve Baucheron. FIRST EDITION, limited to five hundred hand-numbered copies; this is number 58. A privately produced cookbook, created by the Allied Maintenance.....
Biddeford, Maine: Rabelais Inc., 2018. Volume one only (all published to date). Small quarto (26.5 x 19 cm.), 169 pages. Illustrated throughout in color. Title Index. Bibliography. Designed and with a letterpressed wrapper by Scott Vile of the Ascensius Press in Bar Mills, Maine. FIRST EDITION. ~ ~ The first volume in a long-term effort to examine AMERICAN COMMUNITY COOKBOOKS as a genre, within a context of other cookbooks which.....
[Gloucester]: Procter Brothers, Publishers, 1882. Octavo (23 x 16 cm.), 274, [38] pages. Illustrated. Advertisements. ~ FIRST EDITION. An omnibus of information about the American seafood industry in the final decades of the 19th century, covering the fishermen and fishing industry of Gloucester, Massachusetts, at the tip of Cape Ann. The book contains lists of vessels operating; explains the value (economic, but also health-wise) of various types of seafood; tell.....
[Springfield, Mass.]: Samuel Bowles & Company, printers, Springfield, Mass. 1867. Booklet in cord-sewn wrappers (18.5 x 11 cm.), [1], 2-9, 12-14, 11, 16-24, [2] pages. Illustrated. Title and publication data from wrapper. Local distributor information pasted down to front wrapper, “Sold by C.W. Hinsdale, 305 Warren Street, Hudson, N.Y." At head of wrapper title, "Price, ten cents". Publication date from prefatory note, page [1] signed, "H. Hutchins. Springfield, Mass., May.....
Danvers, Mass.; Lynn, Mass. L.A. Roberts & Co.; Perry & Searle, Printers, 1902. Stapled booklet (17 x 12.5 cm.), 64 pages. Illustrated. [Cover title: 100 Recipes with Cream of Pure Chocolate]. First and only edition. Includes testimonials and prize-winning recipes, many attributed to their contributors. Sections include: Beverages, Beverages for the sick, Cakes and cookies, Candy, Custards, Frostings, Fudge, Ice cream, Pie fillings, Puddings, Sandwiches. Some offsetting from wrappers to.....
late 1500s. Engraving, (23.5 x 29.5 cm. image dimensions). Signed in lower part of impression, "Bassan. inuet. loa. Sadeler sc." and CU. priuil. S. Caes. M." and ex S. Lvc. xvi. cap." Lacking the legend below the image. One of Sadeler's three "Kitchen" scenes, this one with Lazaraus seen from behind at right with two dogs,, seated and looking at a dinner table with the rich man, a kitchen with.....
Oakland, Calif. Occidental Pub. Co., 1900. Thick quarto, 590 pages. FIRST EDITION THUS. A rare saleman's copy of a deluxe edition with chromolithographed plates with an unusual Oakland California imprint. At the rear of book is subscription information, with lined blank pages for customers to sign up. In white oil cloth binding, edges with faux marbling. Some wear to cloth edges, hinges a bit shaken, previous owner's name to front.....